'How to be green? Many people have asked us this important question. It's really very simple and requires no expert knowledge or complex skills. Here's the answer. Consume less. Share more. Enjoy life.' Penny Kemp and Derek Wall

The 'How to get climate policy back on course' report argues we should reduce carbon emissions by increasing energy efficiency and building non carbon energy sources, I disagree with them over nuclear power, but their approach is essentially correct. The complex cap and trade system has failed, we need to instead produce energy cleanly.

I would add that we need to protect the rainforests and other carbon sinks.

I listened to Nick Stern yesterday at a British Museum event, I would have like to have asked him how he could justify the present system of market based climate change policies....they have made bankers money but they have failed to reduce CO2.emissions.

He told us that if we didn't deal with climate change we might as well 'write a letter to our grandchildren' explaining how we failed them.

I think he should get writing, his kind of approach to climate change has failed and will devaste the future if it continues.

2 comments:

Thanks for reading my Campaign For Green blog!I agree that we need to protect the rainforests and the people who live there, and other endangered habitats. The alternative energy discussed at www.terrahumanafoundation.org is a no-emissions technology that will protect the earth just by virtue of its totally clean energy. Have a good day!

This report should have the same profile as Blair's recent claim to climate fame - where he proposes over-reliance on technology to address climate change and seems to fail to see that without limits to growth this investment will keep our economies going not put us on a new path. We need to redefine living well within our planets resources not create new industries and carbon markets that trap us into believing that business-as-usual with a few tweaks is sufficient.

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I am a green activist, writer and economist. Three kids, live in Winkfield. Live low impact on the land in my trailer, I am a Green Party local councillor. Ecosocialist and fan of Elinor Ostrom, have worked closely with the Peruvian indigenous leader Hugo Blanco to fight.